Writers Block?

Question

I have to write a story for english, which either starts or ends at a train station, & I have no ideas. Does anybody know what I could write about?

Answer 1

Your story could take place entirely in the train station while your main character waits on the train. Something the character sees, hears or smells could be a catalyst for a memory or a fantasy. Proust used the smell of a pastry as a device to write a multi-volume novel so a story using that same sort of technique could be very interesting.

Answer 2

How about turning the station into the central character of your story. You could start it by describing the station as dilapidated on a disused line, probably buried in a forest somewhere and then go back in time to when it first opened and the regular characters that used to frequent its platforms through its life and how it came to be in the state of disrepair that its now in.

Perhaps you could have some children find it and then a campaign to restore it to its former glory. Maybe even (to the children anyway) the station itself asks them to help and then its a battle for the kids to pursuade their parents and local authority to get them to start work on it.

Perhaps you might end it by the council being so impressed by the station that they reinstate the branch line as a tourist attraction and finally the station sees a steam train grace its platforms once again?

Any help to you?

Answer 3

your story could end at a train station you could make a child from the I think?? near the hollacausts innorway and france when the Germans were taking over Europe (or trying to) you could tell the story of a little kid leaving the big cities in hope of protection from bombs ( a lot of kids had to leave their families and live with other people until the war was over) u could start it with them leaving or end it with them coming home for extra inspiration have you ever seen the movie The Chronicle Of Narnia (might help)

Answer 4

Think of all the things that go on at train stations eg: who works there? Are there shops? Pubs? What sort of things go on there? What happens at night? Is it a busy station or a quiet one? Does someone get lost? Dies? Killed? Hope this helps!!

Answer 5

Write a mystery or love story about something that happens on the train.

The story starts when you are boarding the train and ends when you reach your destination and leave the train.
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Answer 6

yeh u could write about the day you were lost at a train station

Answer 7

write about someone visiting their mad old aunt/uncle that begins at the train station where they meet her in v. embarrassing clothes and actions? keep it short and sweet but a major incident in the middle. sorry if this isn't of any help it works for my english teacher!

Answer 8

u could do a story about a woman who gets on a train to visit some corner of her life that she knows nothing about-maybe shes adopted and is going to visit her real parents-and as she travels, she recounts her whole life, and the story copuld end with her reaching her destination.
Keep it short and sweet

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Answer 9

this may sound corny but a romantic one you know like the old ones with one of the lovers going on a train and the other left behind to weap untill they meet each other again

or

a world war 2 one

Answer 10

Write a story containing all these words

badger
piffle
squeak
lorry
jambouree
twinkle
spangles
furnace
doolally
wobble
triangle (or triangular if you prefer)
dropsy.

Does that give you any ideas?